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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For his blasphemy and irresponsible behaviour, he was doomed to wander about like a sea-tossed ghost, never to rest again. ▪ It was too close to blasphemy to be comfortable. ▪ The word itself is sacred, and to suggest otherwise ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity , to religious or holy persons or sacred things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable . Some religions consider blasphemy as a religious crime. As of 2012, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from Old French blasfemie "blasphemy," from Late Latin blasphemia , from Greek blasphemia "a speaking ill, impious speech, slander," from blasphemein "to speak evil of." Second element is pheme "utterance" (see fame ); first element uncertain, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath" [syn: profanation , desecration , sacrilege ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blasphemy \Blas"phe*my\, n. [L. blasphemia, Gr. ?: cf. OF. blasphemie.] An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable. 2 The act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for any religion's deity or deities. 3 The act of claiming the attributes of a deity.
Usage examples of blasphemy.
Without the art of divination, one might foretel, that so gross and impious a blasphemy would not fail to be anathematized by the people.
If the things pertaining to defect were attributed to God in His Divine Nature, it would be a blasphemy, since it would be derogatory to His honor.
Now, this is proof of Pride, of infamous Vanity, of the most gross blasphemy, for an excommunicant is without the access to God, and being denied the sacraments is in a state of mortal sin.
He was chiefly distinguished among men of birth for general obscenity of speech and morphological inventiveness in blasphemy.
Oh, let us purge these statements of outgrown crudities, cruelties, falsities, blasphemies, infamies!
When such blasphemies pass for the best pedagogic wisdom, to preach parenthood as the goal of all worthy education is to run the risk of being looked upon as ridiculous.
But behold, I had not been long a partaker at that ordinance, but such fierce and sad temptations did attend me at all times therein, both to blaspheme the ordinance, and to wish some deadly thing to those that then did eat thereof: that lest I should at any time be guilty of consenting to these wicked and fearful thoughts, I was forced to bend myself all the while, to pray to God to keep me from such blasphemies: and also to cry to God to bless the bread and cup to them, as it went from mouth to mouth.
You have tried to tell your brother that blasphemy is wrong, but he hears it and sees it unchecked, uncondemned, across the airwaves and on the silver screen.
Disgusted at the idea of having such a fellow for my bed companion, I refused to let him come, but he answered, with fearful blasphemies, that all the devils in hell could not prevent him from taking possession of his own bed.
He dashed through the long, dark room up the stairway, over the forms of several hundred men, and disregarding consequences and savage curses in the dark and crowded room, he trampled upon arms, legs, faces, and stomachs, leaving riot and blasphemy in his track among the rudely awakened and now furious lodgers of the Chickamauga room.
A new century got under way, and despite the efforts of certain parties, it continued to witness unchecked the sins of godlessness, blasphemy, fornication, homosexuality, miscegenation, pornography and cheesy B-movies.
For practical purposes the lake had no bottom at all, and Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.
Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.
Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.
Godhead is greater than His humanity, and His humanity greater than the sacraments of His humanity, hence it is that those are the gravest sins which are committed against the Godhead, such as unbelief and blasphemy.